She was a marketer. Her specialty was naming colors. Her calling
card became firecracker fuchsia. It
won’t be in Wikipedia but everybody has something. She also loved the Counting
Crows and collected choose your own adventure books; spent way too much money
on this but everybody has something. My vice was collecting felonies…of the
arson type. I burned up more than my fair share of abandoned sheds and cars. I
ain’t sayin' it was right but I am sayin' they was abandoned and that oughta
count for something. We met through a prison pen pal program. To this day I can’t
think of how a successful marketer with copper
mint in her color naming collection would get involved in a prison pen pal program.
I sometimes wonder if it is some part of community service she has to do. Maybe
for some sort of misdemeanor arson? Hot. You’re probably wondering what prison
is like and if I have set anything on fire in prison. The answer is that the
showers aren’t like what you hear, they are worse. Which is why I set an
inmates bed on fire in prison. I told her about it in a letter. I thought I was
communicating, opening myself up, risking, being vulnerable. She reported it
and I got another 3-5 added to my sentence. Just great, another 3-5 years and a
Counting Crows Round Here CD. Did she think I had a cd player? What kind of pen
pal program puts prison inmates in contact with sadistic sociopaths that send
you the lyrics to Mr. Jones? It’s obviously a song about his penis. I’m in
prison for god’s sake! I don’t need lyrics about penises or just one penis,
singular. I guess I have learned some grammar through the writing class but
still. I still think about her. I wish I could reread the letters but I set
them on fire. Maybe she’s out there naming a color, maybe it’ll be prison grey.
A little light stuff, a little substance. A little of this, a little of that. Don't over think it. I know you won't.
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